01-29-2016, 12:38 PM
(01-29-2016, 11:55 AM)Pheidippides Wrote:(01-28-2016, 08:27 PM)D40LF Wrote: Plans from years ago called for route 9 to be rerouted through the R & T Park with a new route between UW and Northlake via Hazel, Albert, and Weber
Isn't that what the route 9 late night loop already does?
GRT seems to be fairly incremental about the system wide changes; I expect that will continue. I don't think we will go to bed one night and the next morning when Ion is up and running have a completely different network.
I think after the #7 rationalization takes place they could probably re-route the 201 from King/Columbia to follow the current 200's route through Northfield/Parkside/North campus; especially if we end up with an "express" 7 going straight down King.
I could also see an new express running from the Boardwalk north, up Erbsville and across Conservation down Westmount and across Northfield and down Weber, especially once that Beaver Meadows District is built out.
Recognizing that I am also contributing, but perhaps this conversation needs to be moved over to the GRT thread; it is drifting a little bit off of Ion.
Wait: is this what is going to happen? GRT went only so far with the rationalization of the 7, and I don’t remember anyone saying authoritatively how the 7 would eventually look.
The express service you just theorized sounds very convoluted to me. I don’t think the Beaver Meadows development would justify frequent rapid bus service on Conservation.
When you think about issues like this (how is McCormick going to continue getting good service?), it becomes especially clear how convoluted our street networks are. I don’t think McCormick needs express service right along Parkside necessarily- a good local service feeding into one or more rapid services might make sense. Retooling 9 to do that shouldn’t be too complicated.